Some Fun Facts About Hair

• The growing stage of hair is called “anagen,” and the resting phase is called “catagen.” When hair goes into the “telogen” phase, it will shed.

• The average man spends 5 months of his life shaving.

• Hair is the fastest-growing tissue in the body. The only thing that grows faster is bone marrow.

• If a man never shaved his beard, it would grow to over 30 to 35 feet in a lifetime.

• On average, women’s hair is half the diameter of men’s hair.

• African hair grows slower and is more fragile than European hair.

• Asian hair grows the fastest and has the best elasticity.

• When healthy hair is wet, it can stretch to 30% longer than its original length.

• It takes about 7 years to grow your hair to your waist and 3 years to grow to your shoulders, on average.

• Hair grows the fastest during the summer, sleep, or between the ages of 16 and 24.

• The average person has roughly between 100,000 and 150,000 strands of hair on their head.

• Everybody sheds between 40 and 150 strands of hair per day.

• There are approximately 5 million hair follicles in the human body

• Egyptians were the first people known to remove unwanted body hair using natural products.

• Warm weather stimulates hair growth, while cold weather inhibits it.

• At any given time, 90% of the hairs in your scalp are growing, while the other 10% are resting.